ACFT PERFO implements a collaborative platform for the aerospace industry

Context

With already established and extensive experience in supporting the aerospace industry, ACFT PERFO provides its clients with airport/obstacle databases and performance software enabling takeoff and landing performance calculations.

Why? Airlines need to focus on safety while optimizing direct and recurring costs such as payload, engine usage and associated maintenance. This is why ACFT Perfo is known as a key player and trusted partner for many in the aviation industry when it comes to EFB solutions, all the way from airport databases to performance calculations.

As we have worked together, we know that the “real-time” tools that ACFT Perfo designs and develops are the best and most accurate you can currently find on the market. Not only do these tools transform real-time obstacle data flows into real-time airport and obstacle databases, but these are immediately validated by performance engineering calculations to ensure perfect safety and optimization of all tools and data.

Challenges

Although the company is growing rapidly, it quickly found that an obvious need was emerging in the aerospace industry market: airlines needed a collaborative platform that could be supervised by performance engineering experts.

While this may seem simple in itself, executing such a project is not. Such a platform would offer the aviation sector high availability and scalability, but low latency, while ensuring a high level of security. Furthermore, the platform should have the flexibility to bundle services into solutions based on customer profiles and requiring a global presence.

Although ACFT Perfo had already created an initial solution that met many of the specification requirements, additional guidance was needed. Why? The solution was composed of a relational database and a monolithic application, which unfortunately could not meet all the requirements they knew their future vision of this tool would require. That’s how they came to us.

Method and Solution

In collaboration with ACFT Perfo, we deployed the entire solution on AWS. In doing so, we used as many managed services as possible, which were organized into serverless components and orchestrated as microservices. In addition to this, the solution is also available through a single web interface.

* Micropole joined the Talan Group in October 2024.